On Thursday, January 30, 2014 6:46:52 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 29 Jan 2014, at 23:24, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 1:34:48 PM UTC-5, John Clark wrote: >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Craig Weinberg <whats...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> > NO ROOM CAN BE CONSCIOUS. >>> >> >> And we know that because we can say it in all capital letters, or >> possibly from the teachings of two of your favorite subjects, astrology and >> numerology. >> > > The all caps were in response to Bruno's all caps, > > > No. I only quoted this. I think you wrote this (on the 25 january). > > (Not important. But I never use caps, except in figure, like in NUMBERS > ==> MIND ==> PHYSICS, for example. If not it looks like we are angry!) >
No, I was responding to you: "But that doesn't answer the question: do you think (or understand, or whatever you think the appropriate term is) that the Chinese Room COULD POSSIBLY be conscious or do you think that it COULD NOT POSSIBLY be conscious?" Craig > Bruno > > > > and no, you don't need astrology and numerology to understand that rooms > are not haunted by the spirits of system-hood. > > >> >> > *Except within the fictional narrative of a conscious experience. >>> >> >> So only things that have conscious experiences can be conscious. Thanks >> for the news flash. >> > > No, the other way around. Only conscious experiences exist, but we can be > misled about what exists. > > Craig > > >> John K Clark >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-li...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to everyth...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
